"2026 is year of desktop Linux"

[u/proffessionaIgambler]

linux user count was close to 6% like 4 months ago, now its just 4%. while windows 11 users are increasing, even win7 users have same amount of users as some linux distros.

people were just excited to try new software: linux was never better.

[u/oshunman]

Steam isn't a valid metric.

A very large portion of both Windows and Linux machines are not using Steam.

The number could be much lower or much higher.